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Intel HD Graphics 4600

The Intel HD Graphics 4600 is Intel’s integrated graphics with a boost clock of 1200 MHz.

HD Graphics 4600Illustration

Drawn from this part’s own specifications. No openly-licensed photograph of the Intel HD Graphics 4600 exists, so this is an illustration rather than a photograph.

Overview

The Intel HD Graphics 4600 is Intel’s integrated graphics with a boost clock of 1200 MHz. These are the manufacturer’s published figures. They describe what the chip is designed to do, not what your particular machine does with it, and the gap between those two is usually cooling. A boost clock is a ceiling rather than a promise, and how long a graphics card holds it under continuous load is the one thing no specification sheet can tell you.

Specifications

Architecture
Not verified
Shading units
Not verified

Comparable within an architecture. Across vendors or generations it is not a like-for-like count.

Base clock
350 MHz
Boost clock
1200 MHz
Memory
Not verified
Memory type
Not verified
Memory bus
Not verified
TDP
Not verified

Board power, not measured draw. A laptop GPU's power is a range the laptop maker chooses within.

Process
22 nm
Launched
Not verified

Sources

Each figure, the label its source printed beside it, and the day it was read.

FigureAs printedSourceChecked
Base clock350 MHzGraphics Base Frequencyunder Intel Core i5-4690intel.comSpecification page
Boost clock1200 MHzGraphics Max Dynamic Frequencyunder Intel Core i5-4690intel.comSpecification page
Process22 nmLithographyunder Intel Core i5-4690intel.comSpecification page

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Every figure on this sheet is a design target. None of it is a measurement.

Nothing above describes how a graphics card behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.

We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.